The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
BOBBY JONESIf I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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The best exercise for golfers is golfing.
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In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
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As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.
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Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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Too much ambition is a bad thing to have in a bunker.
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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I’m not even familiar with.
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Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.
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